Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-05
THE HOME CIRCLE.
Effect upon the World at Large Of
What Happens There-Able sermon
by Rev. q. w. Gue on Domestic Re-

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Rev. G. W. Cue preached sermon of
sound advice to all, on the Home Life
of Husband and Wife," taking for his
text. Mark sic:
Go home to Thy friends and tell them how great
things the Lord hath done for thee.
That, Mr.. Cue said. is just the very
thing to do. When man gets religion
he wants to talk about it in the home.
If he hasn't got enough to talk about
there, then the little he has is not worth
mentioning. 1t takes more religion to
live christian life in the home than any
where else. and it is more important that
we live the christian life in the home
than elsewhere. as the home is the foun>
dation of church and state.
If things go right III the home they will
go right everywhere. A man never gets
higher or lower than his own home. In
other words domestic life overarches and
uudergirds all other life. The highest
house in congress is the domestic circle,
and the rocking chair in the nursery is
higher than throne. As individuals we
are Fragments God makes the race in
fragments, then gradually puts them to-
gether. Our dificits and SURPRISES of |
character are the cog-wheels in the great |
social mechanism. That which is lack |
ing in one is made up by another, or made |
up by them all. Said Mr.. Cue, Il have
no more right to blame a man for being
different from me than he has for blam-
ing me for differing from him. God has
so made us that one balances the other,
| Wesley balanced Calvan. The difficulty
| is, that we are not satisfied with just the
| work God has given us to do. Some
are in blacksmith shops that ought to
have been in the college, and have
known generals at the head of the army
that would have been nearer in their
place if they had been high private in
the rear rank"
For more compactness and that we may
be more useful, we are gathered into still
smaller circles the home group-and
there We have the same varie ties-broth>
er, sister, husband and wlfe-all different
in temperaments and tastes. Ii is fortu-
nate that it should be so. The home or
ganization is most beautifully construct,
ell 1t was established in paradise in
the time of mans innocency, and no law
OF man has right to touch it beyond
| protecting it according to Gods ordi>
nance, Persons when only legally mar
red, are only half married. The law has
no more right to interfere with this insti-
tuition than it has with baptism or the
sacrament of the Lords supper. The
gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what is
| right and what is wrong regarding
this the marriage relation. Eighty thou
sand divorces in Paris in one year pre-
ceeded the worst revolution France ever
knew. Wrong notions of christian mar
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IN oral outrage before God and man har
any other cause. 1t is the duty of every
christian pulpit to speak out upon thi:
theme.
Let both husband and wife exercise
to the very best possibility of their nature,
the law of forbearance. You will moi
have in your home everything Just as you
want it; sometimes it will be the dut,
OF the husband and sometimes the duty
OF the wife to yield. If both stand on
for individual rights, there will be 6
Waterloo with no Butcher coming up a
nightfal to decide the conflict. Find on
the weak points of your companion, AM
then stand sloof from them. Don't carr
the fire of your temper too near the gun
powder of your companion. Make you
home the center Of your chief pleasure
there should be more real fun in tn
home than anywhere else.
If the husband spends the most of hi
nights away from home-of choice, an
not of necessity-he is not the head O
the household; he is only the cashie
If the wife throws the cares OF the hous
hold into the servants lap and the
spends five nights Of the week at IL
opera or theatre, she may clothe b
children in their best. but they are on
orphans. The jaws of dissipation in Of
large cities are swallowing down mo
little children than all the monsters tn
ever crawled upon the banks of I
Gauges. Cultivate in your home symp
thy of occupation.
The wife ought to be the advising pa
ty in every firm; she has right to kno
her husbands business If man GO
into business he dare not tell his wife
is on the road to bankruptcy or mo
ruin. On the other hand, the husba
ought to be sympathetic with the wifi
occupation. 1t is no easy thing to Ike
house There are thousands of mart,
of the kitchen. II the husbands VIC
covers him with the SCOT of the furna
or the mine or the odor of the facto
let not the wife be easily dlsgusted at I
. begrimed hands or unsavory aron
Your gains are one, your interests o.
your losses one. Many a wife has m,
the mistake of her life in not being sa
fed until her husband gave up the 81
OF farm, and put himself in circles VIII
he has nothing to do but smoke
drink and get himself into habits that
set him, going down into the maestro
taking his wife and children with him
There are two classes of people sure
destruction, the speaker said-those '
have nothing to do, and those who h
something to do. but are too lazy
proud to do it. Let love preside in y
home Let no shadow of suspicion &C
over your affections. 1t is easier to
. that flower than to make it live az
The blast from hell that puts out
light, leaves you in the blackuess of d